13 August 2019
We are starting to think seriously about our plans for the garden landscaping and infrastructure to start next month (heatwave permitting), so I thought it would be good to set down some markers of where we are now in the garden.
We are starting to think seriously about our plans for the garden landscaping and infrastructure to start next month (heatwave permitting), so I thought it would be good to set down some markers of where we are now in the garden.
The start of the terrace-building, waiting for Rowan to find time to continue
The salad and herb bed - with newly installed olla pots, which may not be working properly. Mint and cherry tomatoes are rampant. A self-seeded mulberry, and a re-planted hazel sucker are growing. The walls made of roofing-board offcuts are starting to rot in the soil and fall over. This bed will be cleared and re-built this winter, hopefully saving the soil we've made.
Strange squash from a mixed seed packet are turning up around the garden
A little chilli plant bought in a bar seems to have settled in
Down the slope, our elder elder and younger elder are struggling with the heat, and the little reincarnated moringa is failing again at about 30 cm.
Left and centre are lemons, recently treated with diatomaceaous earth to control massive aphid farming by the local ants. To the right, a self-seeded avocado that seems to be flourishing.
The bigger fig. Doing well, although only a few figs, about five, this year.
A tiny elder, planted in hedgerow position, but struggling against cricket attack, and with a self-seeded judas treelet muscling in on the water supply.
The one remaining sweet chestnut, growing slowly but strongly. With one sweet chestnut seed growing, so it is getting fertilised from somewhere.
The robinia in the hedgerow - needs the undergrowth cutting back.
The smaller, neater fig. Less tree, slightly more figs this year.
This is a lot of photos, and there's more to come, so I'll do another post.
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